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TIL American juries can nullify a law by ignoring it, and letting the defendant go free.

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QZpd TIL that there is French territory just off 23 km off the Coast of Newfoundland, Canada. These islands have a population of 6000 and use the Euro.
l78Gr TIL The crew of an Egyptian ferry extinguised a fire in the engine room by sinking the ship. Around 800 people died.
1oGd TIL Peta Kills About 85% of the Animals They “Save”
9QmX TIL - Before D-Day, the Daily Telegraph featured crossword puzzles which coincidentally had the same words as the codenames for the Normandy landings, leading to an arrest and interrogation.
NRXb TIL that the man on NASA’s CAPCOM that said, “Challenger, go at throttle up” just before it exploded was the pilot on the very next shuttle mission.